Shakespeare's Sister documents another example of O'Reilly's ugly id coming out to play. In this case, he's blaming an abducted child for the length of his captivity because the kid didn't try to escape his 300-pound, 6 foot 4 inch captor. In other words, the kid liked it, and it's his fault. This is the necessary flipside of folks like O'Reilly who spend their time glorifying heroism and masculinity. For such acts to be virtuous, their absence must be, at least, borderline immoral. The subtext of the discussion, of course, is that Bill O'Reilly would have escaped, that he is a real man and thus courageous enough to impolitically point out cowardice in others. That's why you don't see such attacks leveled at kidnapped women, like Elizabeth Smart. By recognizing female fear and helplessness, O'Reilly slips into another traditionally masculine role. In the end, that's the only constant on O'Reilly's show. His ideology and allegiances may shift, but every episode underscores the fact that he has a penis.
Speaking of which, remember this?
